first contact
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first contact (usually uncountable, plural first contacts)
- (anthropology) The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.
- (science fiction) The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: First Contact War Codex entry:
- Humanity’s first contact with an alien race occurred in 2157. At that time, the Alliance allowed survey fleets to activate any dormant mass relays discovered, a practice considered dangerous and irresponsible by Council-aligned races. When a turian patrol discovered a human fleet attempting to activate a relay, they attacked. One human vessel survived, retreating to the colony of Shanxi.
- (astronomy) The moment, during an eclipse or transit, when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch.
- Coordinate terms: second contact, third contact, fourth contact
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